Game



1. L. DUGGAN.

GAME APPLICATION FILED NOV. 14. 1919.

1,353,462. Patnted Sept. 21,1920.

UNITED srarae p JOSEPH OF CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

Specification of Letters Patent. t te t 21, 192

Application filed November 14, 1919. SerialiNo'. 337,929.

TENT Oman; 1 g 1 T 0 all to hom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH L. DUGGAN, cause the balls 9, when in inclosure; P, to a c1t1zen of the United States, residing at gather in one of the, openings 6 around ball Chester, in the county of Delaware and 8, as seen in dotted lines in Fig. 1. Of State of Pennsylvania, have invented cercourse the number'of balls Qmay vary" at tam new and useful Improvements in will. The container is closed with a trans- Games, of which thefollowing is a specifiparent cover 10.' The distance between I cation. 1 cover 10 and the'play field relative to the This invention relates to games. It is staples 4 is such that the ball 8 cannot esdesigned to provide a toy adapted to incape from the field inclosed by'staples 4. terest the player and at the same time to I claim r I I develop skill in the use of the hand and 1. Ina game, a container, a series of lon- '65. rapidity of adjustment in the use of the eye. gitudinally bent staples arranged ona field, It is designed to beheld in the hand while to form a substantially circular inclosure,a in use and by its tipping in any desired relatively large ball in said inclosure, said direction to cause a series of balls to-ro'll staplesbeing spaced apart and'formingin? over a play field and through gatesor openclined openings into said inclosure and a ings into an inclosure in which a larger ball series of small balls to be brought into said is placed. 1 a inclosure. V I o y In the drawings herewith accompanying 2.,In a game, a container having aplay and making a part of this application, Figfield, a series of horizontally bent staples ure 1 is a plan view of the game and Fig. 2 mounted in the play field to form a substan is a sectional view of a portion thereof tially circular inclosure,'the staples being showing the structure of the gate staples spaced apart fromeach otherand forming and the transparent top. outwardly converging openings between: ad-

The same reference characters indicate jacent staples, a relatively large ball mouhtlike parts in the several figures. ed in said inclosure and larger than said In said drawings, 1 is a container having openings and a plurality of small {balls a play field 2, and upturned sides 3. Mountsmaller than said openings. p v 7 ed in the play field are a series of gate In a'game, a container having atrans-g staples 4 which are horizontally bent, as parent cover,,aplay field atthe bottom of' seen in Fig. 1, and form an inclosure 4*. said container, aseries of horizontally bent They are provided with points 5 which are staples mountedin said play field and forminserted in the play field. The adjacent ing an inclosure, adjacent staples being; ends of the staples are spaced apart formspaced apart forming outwardly converging ing openingsfi. as seen in Fig. 1. The m; openings, a seriesof similarly bent staples. ber of staples in the series shown is six, but centrally located and forming an inner in- I the number may vary. Located in the in closure, adjacent staples being spaced apart closure 4? is another series of similar staples forming outwardly diverging openings, a 7 forming an inclosure 72 This inner series ball positioned in said outer inclosure. and is of a smaller number thanlthe outer series. somewhat larger than said openings and a The openings between staples of the inner plurality of smaller balls adapted to pas's95 series diverge, while those between the freely into and out of said inclosure.; staples of the outer series converge. 4. Ina game,a container having a trans: The game is played with one large ball 8 parent cover, a series of horizontally bent and a series of smaller balls 9. In play, the staples placed apart, forming converging large ball Sis placed insideinclosure 4 andopenings between adjacent staples, a ball .100

50 i 1 enter through openings 6 into inclosure P.

- the sizeof this ball is somewhat larger than the openings 6. The game may be to tip the container to cause the balls 9, all of them, to

I 4 The larger ball 8 aids in accomplishing this result by temporarily, at least, closing one of the openings 6. The game may also be to too large to pass between said adjacent,

staples or between the transparent cover and V the topof said staples and a series of smaller balls adapt'edto pass freely into and out'of said inclosure.

, JOSEPH L. DUGG N; 

